The most important of these put an end to the attempts which Edward had made like his grandfather to deal with the merchant class apart from the Houses.

No charge or aid was henceforth to be made save by the common assent of the Estates assembled in Parliament.

The progress of the next year was yet more important.

The strife of the king with his ministers, the foremost of whom was Archbishop Stratford, ended in the Primate's refusal to make answer to the royal charges save in full Parliament, and in the assent of the king to a resolution of the Lords that none of their number, whether ministers of the Crown or no, should be brought to trial elsewhere than before his peers.
The Commons demanded and obtained the appointment of commissioners elected in Parliament to audit the grants already made.

Finally it was enacted that at each Parliament the ministers should hold themselves accountable for all grievances; that on any vacancy the king should take counsel with his lords as to the choice of the new minister; and that, when chosen, each minister should be sworn in Parliament.
[Sidenote: Close of the truce] At the moment which we have reached therefore the position of the Parliament had become far more important than at Edward's accession.